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“I'm reasonably good at talking onstage, but actually holding court in a pub is all to do with power dynamics which I don't think has anything to do with fiction.”
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“Tyrion: My gentle sister seems to have mistaken me for Ned Stark. Bronn: I hear he was taller. Tyrion: Not after Joff took off his head.”
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“As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.”
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“Behold, O Lord, that I am indignant with myself, for my senseless, profitless, hurtful, perilous passions; that I loathe myself, for these inordinate, unseemly, deformed, false, shameful, disgraceful passions; that my confusion is daily before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me. Alas! woe, woe! O me, how long?”
Source : Lancelot Andrewes (bp. of Winchester.) (1883). “The private devotions of Lancelot Andrewes”
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“Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.”
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“The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.”
Source : Maurice Blanchot (2015). “The Writing of the Disaster”, p.16, U of Nebraska Press
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“A lot of people wonder how a 21-year-old with average power (I finished 89th in driving distance) can be so successful. The answer is simple: I know how to score.”
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“The smarter the person, the more boring the instagram account.”
Source : Lorde @lordemusic, twitter.com. April 3, 2014.
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“I might be alone, but i'm never lonely.”
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“Any good parody takes a grain of truth and exaggerates it for the big screen. People ask me if I'm offended at all and I say not in the least.”
Source : Source: www.usatoday.com